RUSSIA OBJECTS TO US WARSHIP IN BLACK SEA

CASEY ANTHONY AND BARACK MUSLIM OBAMA - BARRY SOETORO HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON.CASEY AND HER INVISIBLE NANNY AND OBAMA AND HIS INVISIBLE BIN LADEN.A GUY IS GOING OUT TO THE SEA WERE OBAMA CLAIMS HE DUMPED BIN LADENS BODY TO FIND IT AND TAKE A DNA TEST TO SEE IF IT REALLY WAS BIN LADEN THEY DUMPED AT SEA.THIS GUY IS FANTASTIC MAKING OBAMA SQUIRM AND FORCING HIM TO REACT TO HIM LOOKING FOR BIN LADENS BODY AT SEA.THIS WILL GET INTERESTING NOW TO SEE WHAT OBAMA COMES UP WITH TO COVER UP HIS CIA AGENT UNTHAWN,KILLED BIN LADEN 9 TIMES.CASEY ANTHONY AND OBAMA WOULD MAKE A GREAT COUPLE.BOTH A BUNCH OF LIERS.

Prominent Bilderberg Insider Injected Into IMF Race At Last Minute Steve Watson Infowars.com June 13, 2011

Following the annual Bilderberg meeting in St. Moritz Switzerland this weekend, a prominent attendee to the elitist gathering has been entered into the race to become the IMF head at the eleventh hour.Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer, an insider favourite of Bilderberg and multiple time attendee, announced his intention to bid to become the replacement managing director of the IMF, taking the position previously held by Dominique Strauss-Kahn, himself a former Bilderberg attendee.

Fischer, a dual US/Israeli citizen, entered into the race on Saturday, the day after the official close of nominations on Friday. However, due to an investigation into a major cyber attack on the IMF, the process was delayed and Fischer’s entry was accepted.Prominent Bilderberg Insider Injected Into IMF Race At Last Minute 130611fischer.Fischer, pictured above (center) with perennial Bilderberg attendee and former World Bank head James Wofensohn, was World Bank chief economist from 1988 to 1990, and the IMF’s No. 2 official for seven years, including during the Asia financial crisis of 1997 and 1998. Fischer is also a former Vice-Chairman of Citigroup.Fischer is also a member of The Council on Foreign Relations and The Trilateral Commission.As we reported last week, the Swiss media devoted front page headlines to the fact that the position of IMF head was high on the agenda of the Bilderberg meeting, with some reports suggesting that the successful candidate would be chosen outright by the Bilderberg group.A three way race is now in place between Fischer, Mexican central banker Agustín Carstens and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde.Lagarde is thought to still be the clear favourite, however, there is a doubt over her candidacy owing to a pending investigation in France into her alleged abuse of authority, in a multi-million-euro business dispute.Carstens, who has been backed by a dozen Latin countries for the job, is also a top-level insider. He is a Mexican economist who has held high-level positions at the Banco de México, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and Bank of International Settlements.

All three candidates fit the mold for the globalist position, they have all espoused orthodox neoliberal economic philosophies, ensuring the status quo will be maintained no matter who takes the role.Given that fact that the Director General of the World Trade Organization, the President of the European Central Bank, and the President of The World Bank were all in attendance at this year’s Bilderberg confab, along with representatives from every major bank in the world and the heads of finance from several major countries, there can be no doubt that the IMF position would have been a key discussion topic.Bilderberg has previously proven its kingmaker power, with several heads of state having attended meetings before they rose to power, when they were relatively unheard of politicians.Most recently, the President of the European Council, Herman Van Rompuy, was selected for the role just days after he attended an exclusive Bilderberg Group dinner meeting. The decision was seen as a baffling one at the time by those who did not make the connection, owing to the fact that Van Rompuy had a virtually non existent international profile.

Arab Violence in Mt. of Olives Area – Up
by Hillel Fendel 6/13/11

As the Maaleh Zeitim neighborhood grows and thrives, Arab rock-throwers step up their activity.One Jerusalem, working to ensure that Jerusalem remains united under Israeli sovereignty, commissioned the Kela Strategy and Research Institute to investigate the security situation in the Mt. of Olives area. Concentrating on Oct. '10, Dec. '10, and Jan. '11, the findings are that Arab rock-throwing has increased, and that the number of visitors to the ancient Mt. of Olives cemetery has slightly decreased.The report concentrates on the entire area of the cemetery, Ras el-Amoud, Maaleh Zeitim (100 Jewish families), the three-family Beit HaHoshen, the Seven Arches Hotel, and Emek Tzurim.The lion's share of the anti-Jewish Arab attacks are rock-throwings that target cars near – though not in – Maaleh Zeitim, though there have been incidents of Molotov cocktails. In October and December of last year, there were 35 and 32 attacks, respectively, while in January the number jumped to 45.

A caretaker at the Mt. of Olives cemetery - where Jews have been buried for at least 2,700 years – says a slight drop in visitors has been noted of late. No one knows the precise amount of graves on the mount, but it is estimated at approximately 150,000.The new neighborhood of Maaleh Zeitim has celebrated three major events of late, including a unique Torah scroll ceremony through local streets from the Western Wall. The neighborhood was officially dedicated last month in the presence of Cabinet ministers and Knesset Members, and three weeks ago, the groundbreaking ceremony was held for the neighborhood’s new synagogue.(Israel NationalNews.com)

Police Force in Revenge Raid on Yitzhar
by Hillel Fendel jun 13,11

Early this morning, hours after a Shomron news agency publicized an internal anti-settler IDF directive, a large police force raided its offices, confiscated computers, and made two arrests.An unusually large force of 100 policemen arrived in Yitzhar, north of Tapuach in Samaria, and swooped down on the offices of HaKol HaYehudi (the Jewish Voice). Officials in Yitzhar say the raid is most certainly linked directly to the agency's publication of an IDF Division Head's memo against soldiers who live in Judea and Samaria (Yesha).The Jewish Voice reported yesterday on the internal letter by Brig.-Gen. Nitzan Alon, head of the Judea and Samaria Division in the IDF. The memo states that soldier-residents of the Jewish communities in Yesha must be interviewed in advance to ensure that they do not plan to leak advance information of planned outpost demolitions. He said their background must be carefully investigated, and that they must be deployed accordingly.Alon cited two incidents over the past several months in which soldiers are suspected of having leaked such information, thus preventing demolitions. The two soldiers were suspended, tried, and distanced from their units.

Yitzhar: Freedom of Expression Under Attack
The Jewish Voice issued this statement in response to today's police action: Freedom of expression has once again been trampled by the Shabak (Israel Security Agency) and Shai Nitzan. Their use of secret information against the media that acts openly shows who is in the right.The agency stated that Shai Nitzan's behavior is problematic, as shown by the document publicized yesterday. Reports like yesterday's frighten the establishment, which would rather hide its activities from the public.MK Michael Ben-Ari (National Union) condemned this morning's arrests, saying, The arrest of those who revealed the document calling for the distancing of Yesha residents in the IDF is a strong blow to our democratic rule. Instead of trying to figure out where they went wrong, they send the police to settle accounts with the Jewish Voice.(IsraelNationalNews.com)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144870

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all,(WORLD SOCIALISM) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

WORLD MARKET RESULTS
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS MON JUNE 13,2011

09:30 AM +2.43
10:00 AM +50.26
10:30 AM +52.07
11:00 AM +29.43
11:30 AM +20.89
12:00 PM +4.60
12:30 PM +4.25
01:00 PM +3.08
01:30 PM +5.53
02:00 PM +25.85
02:30 PM +33.43
03:00 PM +38.07
03:30 PM +23.96
04:00 PM +1.06 11,952.97

S&P 500 1271.83 +0.85

NASDAQ 2639.69 -4.04

GOLD 1,516.10 -13.10

OIL 97.16 -2.13

TSE 300 12,939.70 -144.20

CDNX 1916.29 -18.64

S&P/TSX/60 743.64 -1.22

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow +27 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -0.31 points at low today.
Dow +66 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,526.80.OIL opens at $98.09 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -0.31 points at low today so far.
Dow +66 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -3 points at low today.
Dow +66 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,573.50 (NOT AT CLOSE)

Maple Group goes hostile for TMX
By Solarina Ho – JUN 13,11

TORONTO (Reuters) – Maple Group launched a C$3.7 billion ($3.8 billion) hostile bid for Toronto Stock Exchange operator TMX Group on Monday, an all-Canadian challenge to the London Stock Exchange's agreed bid.The Maple Group consortium's long-awaited official bid proposed C$48 a share cash for 70 percent of shares, compared with 60 percent in the original proposal nearly a month ago.The group, comprised of four leading banks, five top pension funds and four new institutional investors, said in a takeover circular to shareholders that its offer was superior in value and provided greater certainty for TMX shareholders.The C$3.7 billion figure is based on C$48 multiplied by the number of fully diluted shares, Maple said. Previously, the C$3.6 billion value of the proposed offer was calculated based on the number of basic shares outstanding.With less than three weeks left until investors vote for the LSE-TMX deal, the Canadian consortium urged shareholders to vote against its rival. Maple's bid dies if TMX shareholders vote for LSE's $3.4 billion offer on June 30.TMX Group shareholders should be aware that Maple's offer can only proceed if the LSE take-over plan does not, Luc Bertrand, Maple's chief spokesman and vice-chairman of Quebec-based National Bank, said in a statement.Unlike LSE shareholders, TMX investors do not get a second vote if there are conditions attached to any regulatory approvals that may come after June 30.

The consortium said in its circular that unlike LSE's all-stock offer, Maple's bid offers cash to shareholders and would maintain TMX's current dividend. It also disputed LSE and TMX's assertion that the transatlantic tie-up would enhance liquidity for Canadian capital markets.The heads of TMX and LSE, Tom Kloet and Xavier Rolet, said on Friday their bid was different from other transatlantic exchange tie-ups in that it focused on growth and building new businesses rather than cost and revenue savings.LSE's planned takeover must pass muster with the Canadian government, which will decide if it meets the terms of the Investment Canada Act, which says foreign takeovers must carry a net benefit to Canada.We think we're in quite good shape now, Kloet told a global exchanges conference hosted by Sandler O'Neill in New York on Friday. He said the company was in active dialogue with the government over the deal.

NO BOARD CHANGES

In addition, Maple said it would maintain the current CEO and senior management as well as existing commitments regarding TMX's board.The valuation of Alpha Group, Canada's main alternative trading platform and the CDS clearinghouse -- two entities Maple hopes to acquire as part of the deal -- has been a key concern for undecided shareholders.While Maple did not provide specific valuations, it offered an illustrative value of the two entities.Maple Group - initially four leading banks and five top pension funds - added Desjardins Financial Group, GMP Capital Inc, Dundee Capital Markets and Manulife Financial to their ranks on Sunday.The move further bolsters the home-grown credentials of a bid that its supporters say would preclude the possibility of Canadian capital markets falling under foreign control.
Maple's original bank members are the Bank of Nova Scotia, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, National Bank of Canada and Toronto Dominion Bank.The five pension funds in the group are Alberta Investment Management Corp, Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Fonds de solidarite des travailleurs du Quebec (FTQ) and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board.(Reporting by Solarina Ho; editing by Sophie Walker)

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

Strong quakes again rock shaken New Zealand city
By RAY LILLEY, Associated Press – JUN 13,11

WELLINGTON, New Zealand – Strong aftershocks rattled New Zealand's quake-devastated city of Christchurch again Monday, toppling one of the few buildings still standing downtown and sinking thousands of homes into darkness.Bricks crashed down in the cordoned-off city center, where only workers have tread since it was devastated in February's major earthquake. About 200 people were there when the quakes struck Monday, and two were briefly trapped in a church. More than 40 people have been taken to hospitals with minor injuries from falling debris, the city council said.We are being enveloped with dust, Christchurch Mayor Bob Parker told New Zealand's National Radio. It is very, very scary.All across the city, people fled buildings in panic when a 5.2-magnitude quake struck during lunchtime; just over an hour later, a 6.0 hit, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Smaller quakes were also recorded.

Several buildings were damaged in the central city and suburbs.All the shops have fallen down,said Renee Murray, who works at a Domino's Pizza in a suburb. Half of the roof has fallen in (but) they have not fully collapsed.Thousands of aftershocks have followed the 6.3-magnitude quake that killed 181 people on Feb. 22. That tremor and its aftershocks have been very shallow, which along with proximity to the city, have made the quakes very destructive. Monday's temblors were six miles (10 kilometers) deep, according to the USGS.About 47,000 homes in the city's eastern suburbs were without power Monday night, when temperatures were expected to approach freezing. Rocks tumbled down hills in the area, which was among the hardest hit in February, and silt bubbled from the earth — a process known as liquefaction that sometimes happens during a quake.After the February quake, 300,000 tons of silt had to be scraped away, and the silt alone made thousands of homes uninhabitable.On one road Monday, an SUV tipped front-first into a sinkhole that opened in the tarmac. A police car sank into another.Roger Sutton, chief executive of the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority, said the extra damage to the city center means some buildings that had been salvageable are now seriously damaged and will have to be brought down.

The group's demolition manager was driving (during the 6.0 quake), and there were buildings coming down in front of him, coming down behind him, Sutton said. He's very lucky to be alive.Two people who were injured were salvaging windows from St. John's Church when the facade, the last wall standing after February's quake, collapsed. Police said they were rescued and taken to a hospital with cuts and bruises.Another building nearby fell, according to police, and the dean of Christchurch Cathedral said the collapsed building suffered new damage.This has been a setback for Christchurch and its people, but it does not lessen our resolve to rebuild,Prime Minister John Key told reporters.The people of Christchurch should know all New Zealanders are thinking of them and will continue to support and stand by them in this very difficult time.New Zealand's earthquake monitoring service GNS Science says Monday's quakes were within a forecasted range but are likely to trigger new aftershocks themselves.

STORMS HURRICANES-TORNADOES

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

THE FIRST JUDGEMENT OF THE EARTH STARTED WITH WATER-IT ONLY MAKES SENSE THE LAST GENERATION WILL BE HAVING FLOODING
GENESIS 7:6-12
6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.
7 And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
8 Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth,
9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.
11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GOD PROMISED BY A RAINBOW-THE EARTH WOULD NEVER BE DESTROYED TOTALLY WITH A FLOOD AGAIN.BUT FLOODIING IS A SIGN OF JUDGEMENT.

China prepares for more flooding as rain expected
By LOUISE WATT, Associated Press – Mon Jun 13, 3:15 am ET

BEIJING – More heavy downpours are forecast this week over central and southern China, where seasonal flooding has already killed more than 100 people, Chinese state media reported Monday.This month's rains have partially relieved the country's worst drought in half a century, while also causing landslides, toppling homes and cutting power supplies and telecommunications.Torrential rain is expected to sweep Hunan, one of the worst flood-hit provinces, from Monday evening until Friday, the province's flood control and drought relief headquarters said Monday.Compared with the last round, this time the area to be soaked is larger and the rainfall will be at least the same,said the headquarters' director, Bai Chaohai, according to the official Xinhua News Agency.The local government in Hunan said rainfall in some areas could be as high as 7 to 9 inches (180 to 220 millimeters).Bai said that soil in Hunan had become loose because of the drought, and areas including the mountainous western parts of the province were prone to mud-rock flows and landslides in heavy rain.Rain-triggered mountain torrents and mud-rock flows last week caused 36 deaths and left 21 missing in Hunan.The area affected by drought has halved since June 2 in the Yangtze River area of Hunan, neighboring Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, and Jiangsu and Anhui to the east, China's flood control agency said Monday.

Meanwhile, a new round of downpours is expected in southwest Guizhou province, where rains last week killed 25 people and left 31 missing.In central Hubei province more than 100 roads have been flooded and 40 bridges damaged, Xinhua reported.The flooding has affected Hunan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Fujian and Guizhou provinces, killing more than 100 people, Xinhua said.Meanwhile, coastal Fujian was struck by weakened Tropical Storm Sarika, which caused a landslide Sunday that killed seven employees of China Communications Construction Company Ltd. and their family members.

Torrential rain halts Canadian Grand Prix
– Sun Jun 12, 2:07 pm ET

MONTREAL (AFP) – Torrential rain brought a red-flag suspension to the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday after 25 of the scheduled 70 laps.World champion Sebastian Vettel, who had started from pole in his Red Bull, was in the lead when the action was halted.It's the right decision to stop the race, said Red Bull boss Christian Horner.The drivers are just passengers, the water lifts the cars up and there is no drive.The race had started behind the safety car because of the wet conditions.
Former world champion Lewis Hamilton had crashed out after colliding with McLaren teammate Jenson Button after just eight laps.Hamilton came off worst when he tried -- and failed -- to go up the inside of his fellow Briton.What's he doing? complained Button over the team radio as the safety car was summoned onto the track.It was a second successive controversial race for the 26-year-old Hamilton.At the Monaco Grand Prix two weeks ago, the Englishman was penalised for collisions with Felipe Massa of Ferrari and Pastor Maldonado of Williams.Afterwards he criticised the stewards in an outburst during a television interview, in which he jokingly suggested, with a reference to the comic character Ali G, that he was being victimised because he was black.He apologised to the stewards in Monte Carlo and wrote a letter of apology to the FIA.

FIRES AND EXPLOSIONS

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

Wildfire evacuation lifted for two Arizona towns
By Zelie Pollon – Sun Jun 12, 10:51 pm ET

LUNA, New Mexico (Reuters) – Forest fire crews held the line on Sunday against a monster blaze in eastern Arizona despite another day of high winds and low humidity, allowing thousands of evacuees to return home and securing a New Mexico border town.
The so-called Wallow Fire displaced as many as 10,000 people at its peak and has scorched more than 680 square miles of Arizona's White Mountains, a mostly pine-studded region popular as a weekend getaway for families seeking to escape the summer heat.Much of the firefighting effort on the 15th day of the blaze focused on keeping flames from encroaching on Luna, New Mexico, a village of about 200 people at the edge of the Apache Sitgreaves National Forest near the fire's easternmost flank.This is without a doubt the biggest fire I've been on, by a longshot, said firefighter Rod Schultz, part of a crew from Utah who has worked for three days helping clear a buffer zone of tinder-dry brush and trees between the fire line and Luna.Staring out across a wide canyon to a steep, smoldering hillside that had been engulfed in flames hours earlier, Schultz said, It ripped pretty good last night.

A short distance away, Todd Etsate, a member of the Zuni-Pueblo Hotshots team laboring on the same fire break, said of the advancing blaze,It'll come, but this will slow it down.Evacuation orders were lifted Sunday for the 7,000 to 8,000 residents forced to flee last week from two eastern Arizona towns, Springerville and Eager, as authorities determined the fire no longer posed an immediate danger to them.But returning evacuees were warned that lingering smoke and soot in the air posed risks for children and people with health problems.Some 1,900 Arizona additional residents from elsewhere across the fire zone remained displaced, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Suzanne Flory said.Fire officials in New Mexico told Reuters that an estimated 3,900 structures -- homes and nonresidential buildings combined -- were still under a fire threat.With some 4,300 personnel assigned to ground crews battling the blaze, about half were on the New Mexico side of the border, laboring to clear fire breaks around Luna and other populated areas.As of Sunday the blaze, believed to have started from an unattended campfire, had crept to within a mile of the New Mexico border but had yet to cross the line. Fire officials said earlier reports of it entering New Mexico stemmed from confusion over controlled burns conducted in recent days to remove scrub and trees as potential fuel for advancing flames.

It's a heads-up day for us, fire information officer Stan Hinatsu said on Sunday morning, explaining that rising temperatures, falling humidity and higher winds had combined to worsen conditions for firefighters.A Red Flag warning, indicating extreme fire danger, was posted for a second straight day after two days of relatively calm winds that had allowed fire crews to finally begin to curtail the blaze.Firefighters have managed to carve a perimeter of containment around 6 percent of the conflagration, but Forest Service officials said they had a long way to go.
The latest aerial infrared images of the fire showed it has consumed over 435,000 acres, or 680 square miles, of forest, making it the second-largest blaze on record in Arizona. The state's biggest wildfire ever was the Rodeo-Chediski fire in eastern Arizona, which charred nearly 469,000 acres in 2002.The Wallow Fire has destroyed a total of 29 homes so far, 22 of those in the town of Greer, Arizona, a small mountain retreat of about 200 dwellings, plus 35 nonresidential structures, according to the Forest Service. No serious injuries have been reported.(Additional reporting by David Schwartz; Writing by Steve Gorman; Editing by Barbara Goldberg)

MUSLIM NATIONS

EZEKIEL 38:1-12
1 And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
2 Son of man, set thy face against Gog,(RULER) the land of Magog,(RUSSIA) the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW)and Tubal,(TOBOLSK) and prophesy against him,
3 And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech(MOSCOW) and Tubal:
4 And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY)of the north quarters, and all his bands:(SUDAN,AFRICA) and many people with thee.
7 Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.
8 After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them.
9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.(RUSSIA-EGYPT AND MUSLIMS)
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.

ISAIAH 17:1
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)

DANIEL 11:40-43
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.

EZEKIEL 39:1-8
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back, and leave but the sixth part of thee, and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.
7 So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the LORD, the Holy One in Israel.
8 Behold, it is come, and it is done, saith the Lord GOD; this is the day whereof I have spoken.

JOEL 2:3,20,30-31
3 A fire(NUCLEAR BOMB) devoureth before them;(RUSSIA-ARABS) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
20 But I will remove far off from you the northern army,(RUSSIA,MUSLIMS) and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.(SIBERIAN DESERT)
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(NUCLEAR BOMB)
31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.

Second Temple Mount Rock Attack
by Gavriel Queenann jun 12,11

Arab youths Sunday morning hurled stones at Jewish worshipers who ascended the Temple Mount. The attack came just two days after Friday afternoon's stone throwing incident which forced the Israel Police to storm Judaism's holiest site.Yoel Keren, a Land of Israel activist and regular visitor on the Temple Mount, told Israel National News that the attack came during his weekly ascent.It was the morning aliyah, my regular Sunday time, around 7:45, Keren related.We went up... myself, attorney Baruch Ben Yosef, and four female [Jewish] worshipers.Keren said the group was accompanied by a member of the Israel Police and a Waqf official onto the edge of the platform of the Al Aqsa mosque.We were on the northern end of the platform of the mosque,Keren explained.Its closer [to the forbidden zone of the Mount] than most groups go, but still outside the halachic Temple Mount according to [Jewish sages] Radbaz, Rambam, Rav Tzvi Rogen... and most of the major archeologists,Keren explained.That's when I heard the rocks ricocheting near us and looked up to see three Arab kids throwing stones at us... kids from the school up there. They were about 20 meters away. I turned and asked Baruch if he saw it... and he had a rock at his feet.Keren said the Israel Police officer present did nothing when the rocks and fleeing Muslim youths were pointed out to him and told the group to keep going.I asked the officer if he saw what happened and he said he didn't know what I was talking about,Keren related. When I pointed at the rocks and the kids, who were just kind of sauntering off, not sure what the cop would do, he just asked if we'd been hit [by the stones]. When we told him no he just told us to 'keep going.' It probably woundn't have been a big deal if I was hit, but three of the ladies were elderly. He didn't do anything.Israel police spokesman Mickey Rosenthal said in every incident, whether on the Temple Mount or elsewhere, the safety of the public is an officer's first priority.

All incidents on the Temple Mount are investigated,Rosenthal told Israel National News. Whether then and there, or using other means later, is something that has to be assessed by the officers on the scene, but our first concern in any incident anywhere is the safety of the public.A lone officer with a group on the Mount has to put the group's safety ahead of making arrests. We have CCTV cameras on the Temple Mount that we can and will review just like we did with Friday's incident. We made several new arrests over the weekend in that incident and more are coming. This incident will be investigated, too,Rosenthal promised.Editor's Note: there are differing opinions on the permissability of ascending the Temple Mount among halachic decisors.(IsraelNationalNews.com)

1,500-Year-Old Building Discovered in Akko
by Elad Benari june 13,11

A 1,500-year-old public building dating to the Byzantine Period has been found in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in the northern Israeli city of Akko.The building was found in an archaeological excavation the Israel Antiquities Authority conducted approximately 100 meters west of Tel Akko, and it is believed that it may have been used as a church.The large ashlar-built public building was found to have an abundance of roof tiles, parts of marble ornamentations, pottery, and coins, all of which point to a public structure that served the Bishop of Akko’s city in the Byzantine period. Terra cotta pipes survived below the wall levels and mosaic pavements adorned the floor in one of its rooms. The building’s inhabitants also had a readily available supply of water from a well that was situated in one of the courtyards of the building.According to Nurit Feig, director of the excavation on behalf of the IAA, Until now, the city was known from Christian sources which mention its bishop who took part in formulating the new religion. Now, the first tangible evidence is emerging in the field.She added that this is an important discovery for the study of Akko because until now no remains dating to the Byzantine period have been found, save those of a residential quarter situated near the sea.Early Christian sources mention the bishops of Akko and Caesarea who participated in major international conferences and meetings that dealt with formulating religious doctrine. This, along with evidence of an anonymous pilgrim from the city of Piacenza in Italy regarding the richness and splendor of the city in the year 570 CE in which he mentions the beautiful churches within its precincts, attest to the centrality of Akko for the Christian religion in this period.In the past, IAA has also uncovered a treasure trove of some 350 rare pieces of marble, hoarded beneath an ancient cellar floor during an excavation conducted approximately 100 meters north of the Old City wall of Akko.The unique find, which dates back to the Crusader period (the thirteenth century CE), is a collection of items that were gathered from buildings that had been destroyed.(Israel National News.com)

WW3 THE 3 WAVES THAT MARCH TO ISRAEL
http://israndjer.blogspot.com/2005/11/questions-ww3-whats-coming.html (WW3 COMPLETE HAPPENINGS)

AMOS 9:10
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

DANIEL 11:40-45
40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south( EGYPT) push at him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) and the king of the north (RUSSIA AND MUSLIM HORDES OF EZEK 38+39) shall come against him like a whirlwind, with chariots, and with horsemen, and with many ships; and he shall enter into the countries, and shall overflow and pass over.
41 He shall enter also into the glorious land, and many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand, even Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children of Ammon.(JORDAN)
42 He shall stretch forth his hand also upon the countries: and the land of Egypt shall not escape.
43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and of silver, and over all the precious things of Egypt: and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps.
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA 2ND WAVE OF WW3) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

The Third and Final Wave of WW3 is when all Nations march to Jerusalem, but JESUS bodily returns to earth and destroys them,sets up his KINGDOM OF RULE FOR 1000 YEARS THEN FOREVER.

2ND WAVE CHINA AND KINGS OF THE EAST MARCH TO ISRAEL

REVELATION 16:12
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.(THIS IS THE ATATURK DAM IN TURKEY,THEY CROSS OVER).

DANIEL 11:44 (2ND WAVE OF WW3)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)

REVELATION 9:12-18
12 One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14 Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.(IRAQ-SYRIA)
15 And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.(1/3 Earths Population die in WW 3 2ND WAVE)
16 And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand:(200 MILLION MAN ARMY FROM CHINA AND THE KINGS OF THE EAST) and I heard the number of them.
17 And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR BOMBS)

US intercepted N. Korea ship over arms fears
– Mon Jun 13, 2:07 am ET

SEOUL (AFP) – The US Navy intercepted a North Korean ship suspected of carrying missiles or other weapons to Myanmar and made it turn back, a senior US official said Monday.The comments by Gary Samore, special assistant to President Barack Obama on weapons of mass destruction, confirmed reports of the incident, which happened last month, in The New York Times and South Korean media.The New York Times said the ship was intercepted south of the Chinese city of Shanghai by a US destroyer on May 26.In an interview with Yonhap news agency, Samore identified the cargo ship as the M/V Light and said it may have been bound for Myanmar with military-related contraband, such as small arms or missile-related items.We talked directly to the North Koreans. We talked directly to all the Southeast Asian countries including Myanmar, urging them to inspect the ship if it called into their port, he was quoted as saying.The US Navy also contacted the North Korean ship as it was sailing, to ask them where they were going and what cargo they were carrying.North Korea is subject to international and United Nations sanctions designed to curb its missile and nuclear programmes.UN Resolution 1874, adopted in June 2009, one month after the North's second nuclear test, toughened a weapons embargo and authorised member states to intercept such shipments.Another North Korean ship, the Kang Nam I, was forced to reverse course in 2009 after being suspected of trying to deliver military-related supplies to Myanmar.The New York Times said the Light was registered in Belize, whose authorities gave the United States permission to inspect the ship.

It said the US destroyer McCampbell caught up with the Light somewhere south of Shanghai and asked to board the vessel under the authority given by Belize.The paper, quoting unidentified US officials, said the North Korean refused four times. But a few days later, it stopped dead in the water and turned back to its home port, tracked by US surveillance planes and satellites.Such pressure from the international community drove North Korea to withdraw the ship, Samore was quoted by Yonhap as saying.This is a good example that shows that international cooperation and coordination can block the North's weapon exports.The United States has frequently expressed concern at military ties between Myanmar and North Korea.Last month Deputy US Assistant Secretary for East Asia and Pacific Affairs Joseph Yun expressed concern directly to Myanmar's new army-backed government.US diplomatic memos released last year by the website WikiLeaks said Washington has suspected for years that Myanmar ran a secret nuclear programme supported by Pyongyang.A top Myanmar official told visiting US Senator John McCain this month that his country is not wealthy enough to acquire nuclear weapons.

AMERICA (POLITICAL BABYLON)(NUKED BY SNEAK ATTACK FROM RUSSIA)

JEREMIAH 50:3,24
3 For out of the north (RUSSIA) there cometh up a nation against her, which shall make her land desolate, and none shall dwell therein: they shall remove, they shall depart, both man and beast.
24 I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon,(AMERICA) and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the LORD. (RUSSIA A SNEAK ATTACK ON AMERICA)

REVELATION 18:3-6,19-21
3 For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication,(U.S.A) and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her,(U.S.A) and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.
4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her,(AMERICA) my people,(CHRISTIANS,JEWS) that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities.
6 Reward her even as she rewarded you,(WITH FALSE FLAG TERRORISM) and double unto her double according to her works:(DOUBLE-EMP 1ST,THEN RUSSIA NUKE ATTACKS U.S.A) in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.(PROBABLY A RUSSIAN CYBER ATTACK WILL SET THE WHOLE SITUATION UP AS RUSSIA HACKS THE USA ARMY COMPUTERS.THEN THE EMP,THEN THE NUKE ATTACK)
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven, and ye holy apostles and prophets; for God hath avenged you on her.
21 And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

Russia objects to US warship in Black Sea
– Sun Jun 12, 6:58 am ET

MOSCOW – Russia is voicing concern about a U.S. warship now just off its shores in the Black Sea.The guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey, which is taking part in annual joint military exercises conducted by NATO and Ukraine, is an integral part of U.S. plans to create a missile shield in Europe, which Russia opposes.Russia's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Sunday saying Russia has repeatedly stressed that we will not leave unnoticed any elements of U.S. strategic infrastructure in the immediate vicinity of our borders and will consider any such steps as a threat to our security.Russia agreed to consider NATO's proposal last fall to cooperate on the missile shield, but insisted the system be run jointly. NATO rejected that demand and no compromise has been found yet.

Dead Sea threatened both by shrinking and flooding
By DANIEL ESTRIN, Associated Press – JUNE 13,11

EIN BOKEK, Israel – The Dead Sea is dying, goes the conventional wisdom: The water level of the fabled salty lake is dropping nearly 4 feet (1.2 meters) a year. Less well known: Part of the lake is actually overflowing, threatening one of Israel's key tourism destinations.Israel is feverishly campaigning to have the Dead Sea — the lowest point on earth and repository of precious minerals — named one of the natural wonders of the world. At the same time, it's racing to stabilize what it calls the world's largest natural spa so hotels on its southern end aren't swamped and tourists can continue to soak in the lake's therapeutic waters.Without intervention, in five to 10 years, (the water) would flood the hotel lobbies, no question, said Alon Tal, one of the researchers the government has commissioned to find a solution.

The Dead Sea is divided into a northern and southern basin, which are located at different elevations, largely disconnected and miles (kilometers) apart. That means the rising waters of the southern basin cannot simply pour into the shrinking basin in the north.Heavy industrialization is what's causing the waters on the southern basin to rise. Chemical companies have built evaporation pools there to extract lucrative minerals from the lake. Millions of tons of salt are left annually on the floor of these pools, causing the water to rise 8 inches (20 centimeters) a year.
Israel's tourism and environmental protection ministers are endorsing Tal's most expensive proposal: A complex $2 billion plan to chip off the salt buildup on the part of the lake that's rising and send it by conveyor belt to the northern end that's dropping.They're also demanding that Dead Sea Works Ltd. — the multibillion-dollar Israeli industry that mines the mineral-rich waters — foot the bill.As the polluters, they should pay, said Roee Elisha, associate director of the Dead Sea Preservation Government Company Ltd., a branch of Israel's Tourism Ministry.The Dead Sea, which is linked to the sites of the biblical Sodom and Gomorra, runs more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) through Israel, the West Bank and Jordan. Its minerals have been sought after since ancient times: The pharaohs were embalmed with the lake's natural asphalt lumps, and Cleopatra is said to have used its skin-rejuvenating salts and mud.Today, the lake is one of Israel's top tourism draws. Half of the 3.45 million tourists to Israel paid a stop there in 2010. Almost 200,000 stayed in the 4,000 hotel rooms along the lake. Locals flock there too, with more than 630,000 — or almost one in 10 Israelis — spending time at Dead Sea hotels last year.

Dead Sea tourism revenue totaled some $300 million last year, propping up an industry that accounts for thousands of jobs in a part of the country that otherwise offers limited employment opportunities.Current efforts to preserve the Dead Sea as a natural treasure shine a spotlight on how extensively the lake has been exploited by modern industry — and how it paradoxically also depends on industry for its survival.Israel's Dead Sea Works and Jordan's Arab Potash mine Dead Sea waters for potash and other minerals, exporting them worldwide for use in fertilizers, cosmetics, cars and laptops.The southern basin now in danger of flooding nearly dried up before the chemical companies intervened. In the 1960s, Dead Sea Works dug a 10-mile (16-kilometer) canal to pump saltwater from the lake's northern basin into its nearly parched southern end, turning it into a network of evaporation pools.That pool is where the bulk of the Israeli hotels lie, and where tourists bob in filmy water so heavy with salt and minerals that they float.But as the water rises, it encroaches on hotel beaches, where blobs of salt stick out near the shores and the salty floor sparkles in the turquoise waters. At one beach, stairs leading to the lake have become half-submerged, and a sun umbrella permanently affixed to the edge is now deep in the water.Dead Sea Works says it will foot some of the bill to dredge the salt from the evaporation pools and send it north, but is negotiating its share with the government, said Noam Goldstein, the company's vice president of infrastructure.Environmentalists accuse the company of profiting at the expense of the ecology. Its factory of smokestacks, pipes and levers looms at the tip of the lake, and its tractors sit high atop snow-white piles of potash.The company counters that without it, tourists in Israeli hotels would have nothing to swim in — the hotels sit on the banks of their evaporation pools.The salt dredging proposal still awaits a final government approval.It's the exact opposite problem at the Dead Sea's northern basin, where the water level is dropping and a barren, pockmarked moonscape has replaced sandy beaches.Old boardwalks that once led into the lake now stand in the middle of empty land. At one beach, bathers must ride a trolley to the lake's edge.

Israel, Jordan and Syria are responsible for the northern Dead Sea's dramatic shrinkage: They have redirected the Jordan River and its tributaries for drinking water, drastically reducing the amount that used to flow into the Dead Sea. The Israeli and Jordanian industries also pump out water from the sea for their evaporation pools.The World Bank is studying a decades-old proposal to replenish the northern Dead Sea's waters by channeling water through a canal from the Red Sea, more than 160 kilometers (100 miles) south. With costs estimated at up to $15 billion and the environmental side effects unpredictable, the Red-Dead canal is unlikely to be built any time soon.In the meantime, Israel's cabinet recently announced it would invest $2.5 million to market the Dead Sea in the international New 7 Wonders of Nature competition, which ends in November.Gura Berger, project manager for the Tourism Ministry's Dead Sea public relations campaign, says winning the contest could help revive the lake and be a major boost to area tourism.We want the Dead Sea to be considered a wonder of the world, so there will be an interest to protect it,Berger said.Associated Press writer Dale Gavlak contributed to this report from Amman, Jordan.

Israeli defense minister meets top Chinese general
– JUNE 13,11

BEIJING – Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has pledged to work for closer ties with China's military during a visit to Beijing, China's Defense Ministry said Monday.Barak's statement came in a meeting Sunday with the chief of staff of the People's Liberation Army, Gen. Chen Bingde, the ministry said.The Israeli side values the development of military exchanges and cooperation with China and wishes to work together with our Chinese friends to raise military-to-military relations to a new level, the ministry quoted Barak as saying.Chen told Barak that relations between their militaries were an important part of overall ties and have strengthened markedly over recent years, the ministry said.There is tremendous potential for friendly cooperation between the two militaries, it quoted Chen as saying.The ministry gave few details of their discussions in a brief report posted on its website and the Israeli Embassy in Beijing did not immediately respond to an emailed request for information.China developed one of its most modern fighter jets, the J-10, from an Israeli design and has close ties with the Israeli defense industry.China is also a top Israeli trading partner and relations between the two countries have been generally good, although strained at times. Israel infuriated China in 2000 when U.S. pressure forced Israel to cancel the sale of sophisticated reconnaissance aircraft to Beijing. Israel also aborted a deal to upgrade drone aircraft sold to China, also under U.S. pressure.China, meanwhile, upset Israel by inviting the foreign minister from the Hamas-led Palestinian government, boycotted by Israel and the West, to attend a conference in Beijing.